We spent the last couple of days, a few hours on each day, repairing the fence bordering our Loke, that was damaged by Storm Eunice back on the 18th February 2022. She had snapped one of the metal post holders in half, leaving the spike buried in the ground, while the socket part with its […]
This afternoon we took to the sky and repaired a smallish section of roof on our Temporary Living Quarters, damaged by Storm Eunice a couple of days ago. It managed to peel off half a strip of roofing felt down at the far end of the roof and a smaller piece also down that end […]
We took the opportunity to empty our builder’s rubble we have collected over the last couple of years. We had been loading up two separate ton bags with various rubbish like concrete blocks cut-offs, rubble, cement board pieces, sandy dirt and other builder’s junk that we couldn’t burn. We had teamed up with our neighbours […]
Today, we took an opportunity to install a new strip of LEDs up on the under side of the steel RSJ part of the Skylight. We wanted to rearrange some of the 100W floodlamps that were previously positioned to shine down lighting up the ground floor but that was before we had built the First […]
Today, the first thing of the new week, we went up on our roof of our temporary living quarters to take down the Sun Shield from over our long corridor transparent roof “window”. It was falling apart and splitting in lots of places, we could just tug at the material and it would rip quite […]
It is very very hot outside today, we had to repair the tarpaulin that provides a sun shield over our long corridor in our temporary living quarter and also replace one of the tensioning ropes. The rope had frayed quite badly in the middle point where the whole cover is hoisted up to provide two […]
Today, we decided to move the heap of timber planks we had stored inside our Great Room, on a raised shelving rack system. The main reason for tackling this job now, to move the timber outside, was because we needed access to our external walls to insert the insulation foam boards. We knew that we […]
The last two days has been spent on replacing an old tumbled down fence, the most of it anyway. The boundary is between us and Cosicot, up the hill from us a little bit. The old fencing was a mish mash collection of wooden fence panels, slotted into concrete posts at various distances. These are […]
This afternoon, after we had the final delivery of CLS timber, we proceeded to put up the new replacement temporary fencing along the Loke, in front of the house. We are fed up of using the cheap recycled plastic fencing (it keeps splitting and it very brittle, this one only lasted 3 years but we […]
Today, Sunday, under a very grey sky, we got up on to the roof of our temporary living quarters and rolled up our Sun Shield tarpaulin covering over our long corridor and put it away for this year. We did a quick inspection of the rest of the roof, including the garage roof, to make […]